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10/05/2014

Corruption in Virginia, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe should be in a lot of trouble for bribing state senator, bribe caught on tape

Democrats don't seem to understand that there is a huge difference between the two cases:1) Republicans offer a Democratic State Senator a job. Now it is true that the Democrat has to resign his seat to take the job and that his resigning will give the Republicans control of the state Senate, but there is no explicit quid pro quo.2) Democrats promise the that same Democratic State Senator a job for his daughter if he remains in office. That is a definite quid pro quo and against the law -- it is a crime. To put it simply it is a bribe. More specifically, the bribe was being offered to get a particular piece of legislation through.Now prosecutors have been looking diligently into the first case, even though the now former Democratic State Senator claims that there was no quid pro quo. Now the state Attorney General is a Democrat and prosecutors have not yet launched an investigation in to Terry McAuliffe, but the evidence here seems overwhelming simply because there is a recording of the McAuliffe's chief of staff offering the bribe. The Washington Post has this transcript (the part in bold is the key):

Will national media cover this? When McDonald got in trouble it instantly got major national attention. McDonald was convicted on less evidence than this. Jason Riley has a write up about this in the WSJ, but there are relatively few stories on all this.